Book Reviews

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BITTER AND SWEET: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China | By Ellen Oxfeld

E.N. Anderson

EMPEROR HIROHITO AND THE PACIFIC WAR | By Noriko Kawamura

Takeshi Suzuki

THE RETURN OF IDEOLOGY: The Search for Regime Identities in Postcommunist Russia and China | By Cheng Chen

Yongnian Zheng

CURSE ON THIS COUNTRY: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan | By Danny Orbach

Paul Kreitman

THE INTELLECTUAL IN MODERN CHINESE HISTORY | By Timothy Cheek

Zhidong Hao

MEDIA THEORY IN JAPAN | Edited by Marc Steinberg and Alexander Zahlten

Franz Prichard

DOWNWARDLY GLOBAL: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora | By Lalaie Ameeriar

Pnina Werbner

THE MAGIC OF CONCEPTS: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China | By Rebecca E. Karl

Wenkai He

RELIGION, SECULARISM, AND ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY NEPAL | Edited by David N. Gellner, Sondra L. Hausner, and Chiara Letizia

Megan Adamson Sijapati

JAPANESE FEMINIST DEBATES: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor | By Ayako Kano

Deborah Shamoon